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Date:      Wed, 5 Apr 1995 00:22:40 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, smace@metal-mail.neosoft.com
Subject:   Re: a few patches...
Message-ID:  <199504041422.AAA23867@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> > I would like to add a config option to enable as disable securelevel.
>> > the securelevel and chflags features are a major security helper IMHO.
>> 
>> Are you saying you also want to come up secure?  No installing over
>> kernels and things except when up single?
>> 
>> Hmmmmm...  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm!  David?  When did we say we were going to
>> cut over after the "grace period" on this one? :-)
>> 
>> Personally, I think it's not a bad idea for 2.1.  I think it highly

Optionally.

>Did you find an archive format to use for the bindist's that preserve
>this information??  Tar doesn't, I think I remeber seeing Brunce say
>that cpio -H newc did, but I can't verify it right now since my 2.x box
>is down.

None of tar, cpio or pax call chflags(), so they can't restore flags.

Bruce



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